Edgar Allan Poe House

"The little house in the lowly street with the lovely name," is how American author, Poet and critic Edgar Allan Poe described the two-bay, two-and-a-half story brick building where he resided from 1833 to 1835. Poe was born in Boston ...

Baltimore and Ohio Transportation Museum and Mount Clare Station

The National Historic Landmark Baltimore & Ohio Transportation Museum and Mount Clare Station is a collection of three interrelated buildings standing on the oldest railroad terminal site in the country. The fledgling Baltimore & Ohio Railroad established its headquarters at ...

St. Luke's Church

St. Luke's Episcopal Church is a Gothic Revival building designed according to the dictates of the Ecclesiological Society. The Society held that proper Christian worship could take place only in churches modeled after medieval English precedents. St. Luke's Parish consulted ...

Franklin Square Historic District

In 1839, James and Samuel Canby of Wilmington, Delaware, donated a two-and-one-half acre park to the city for $10,000. The city agreed to widen the surrounding streets and landscape this park, later named Franklin Square. It was common in the ...

H. L. Mencken House

A National Historic Landmark, this brick, Italianate row house was the residence of noted Baltimore Sun journalist and author Henry Louis Mencken from 1883 until his death in 1956. A curmudgeon with an acidic writing style, Mencken gained national recognition ...

Union Square - Hollins Market Historic District

Begun during the influx of English, Irish and German immigration of the 1830s, the Union Square-Hollins Market Historic District is a dense area of rowhouses that includes Federal, Greek Revival and Italianate architectural styles. To the west, Union Square Park ...

Kingsley Plantation

From a singular past that includes the story of one woman’s path from slave to slave owner, Jacksonville’s Kingsley Plantation now welcomes visitors to a place of solitude, retreat and reflection.

The two-mile-long, sandy dirt lane that leads visitors to ...

Mount Clare

Mount Clare is the oldest extant colonial building in Baltimore. It was built in 1760 by Charles Carroll, a barrister (lawyer), and distant relative of Charles Carroll of Carrollton, a signer of the Declaration of Independence. Charles Carroll the barrister ...

Fort McHenry National Monument and Historic Shrine

Fort McHenry is forever associated with Francis Scott Key's composition of "The Star Spangled Banner." Built as part of the East Coast defense system, Fort McHenry replaced Fort Whetstone. During the War of 1812, the British moved north to invade ...

Angell and Phelps Chocolate Factory

Angell & Phelps Chocolate Factory shows off its inner workings for 500 to 1,000 visitors a day. Try the dark chocolate-covered potato chip.

"Would you like to try our chocolate?"

The offer comes from a beaming, apron-wearing woman greeting customers ...